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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

what's crazy to me are two aspects:

kill to death ratio in this conflict, on the RU side, is WILD. Generally you end up with one dead for every few wounded / casevac'd - that's not what we're seeing in Ukraine, where Russians get blasted, mined, droned etc., and just die on the battlefield.

Russian army numbers - so many of the wounded and dead aren't regular russian army, but drunks, criminals, and old men they scraped out of the oblasts and prisons to keep the meatgrinder fed... so theoretically russia still has an army after all of this (good luck deploying it without fuel, modern functioning armor / apcs / artillery tubes etc.,) but yeah

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Its even more astonishing when you compare it to modern military numbers that are closer to a 1 in 10 ratio even for large scale conflicts. Russia numbers for this conflict look like Napoleonic war casualties.

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